Are You Kidding Me?

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Sometimes the very strategies meant to help children have the opposite effect. Join AEI’s Naomi Schaefer Riley and Ian Rowe as they look behind the headlines at the public policies and cultural agendas driving child welfare and education. Rowe and Riley bring to light practices that will make you ask, “Are you kidding me?”

Episode Date
Angela Rachidi on Poverty Dynamics After Nonmarital Births
Mar 20, 2024
Tim Carney on Creating a More Family-Friendly Culture
Mar 06, 2024
Robert Pondiscio on the Science of Reading
Feb 21, 2024
Chris Sinacola on the Decline of Civics Education in American Schools
Feb 07, 2024
“We Are Not Here to Save Children”: Marie Cohen on Preventable Child Deaths in the District of Columbia
Jan 24, 2024
The Current State of the Child Welfare System (Recorded LIVE at FREE Forum Denver)
Dec 27, 2023
When Parents Do Know Best: Darla Romfo on the Viability of School Choice Programs
Dec 13, 2023
Mike Petrilli on Learning Loss and Accountability in Schools
Nov 29, 2023
Melissa Kearney on Family Structure and Reducing Poverty
Nov 15, 2023
Brian Conrad on Real Vs. Fake Equity in the California Math Framework
Nov 01, 2023
Katharine Birbalsingh on Banning Smartphones from Schools
Oct 18, 2023
Robert Cherry on The State of the Black Family
Jul 26, 2023
Maralyn Beck on How New Mexico’s Drug Crisis is Creating a Child Welfare Crisis
Jul 12, 2023
Brett Drake on the Truth about Racial Disparities in Child Welfare
Jun 28, 2023
Jon Scruggs on Prioritizing Ideology Instead of Children
May 03, 2023
Sarah Font on the Timely Permanency Report Cards
Apr 19, 2023
Asra Nomani on Preserving Merit in K-12 Education
Apr 05, 2023
Karol Markowicz on Wokeism Affecting Every Aspect of Children’s Lives
Mar 22, 2023
Richard Gehrman on the Institutional Failure to Protect Children
Mar 08, 2023
Rick Hess on ChatGPT and What Artificial Intelligence Will Mean for the Future of Classrooms
Feb 22, 2023
Daniel Buck on How We Are Setting Up Teachers for Failure
Feb 08, 2023
The Untold Truths of Kenosha
Jan 25, 2023
Katharine Stevens on Her New Think Tank and the Need for Better Early Childhood Policy
Jan 11, 2023
Matt Continetti on the Politics of Race-Based Affirmative Action
Dec 21, 2022
Misplaced Efforts on Racial Equity Put Children’s Lives In Danger
Dec 08, 2022
Whose Child Is it? Robert Pondiscio on Schools Overreaching Their Authority
Nov 18, 2022
Taking from the Poor and Giving to the Rich? David French on Why Student Loan Forgiveness Is Regressive and Unfair
Oct 26, 2022
Elizabeth Kirk on Adoption Post Dobbs
Oct 12, 2022
Tori Hope Petersen on Supporting Children in Foster Care
Sep 28, 2022
Ilana Horwitz on Religion, Education, and Social Capital
Sep 14, 2022
Scott Yenor on Cancel Culture and the Problems with Modern Feminism
Aug 31, 2022
The Fight for Education Freedom
Aug 17, 2022
Empowering Women Through the Choice of Adoption
Aug 03, 2022
To Embrace Classical Texts or to Decolonize: A Third Way Conversation with Dr. Anika Prather
Jul 21, 2022
Gender-Affirming Therapy and Youth Suicide: How Strong is the Evidence?
Jul 06, 2022
Protecting Children with Birth Match (or Violating Parent Civil Liberties?)
Jun 22, 2022
Rediscovering Social and Emotional Learning
Jun 08, 2022
Agency
May 11, 2022
Educators should stick to what they do best
May 05, 2022
How schools can better address mental health
Apr 13, 2022
Preserving parental roles that work
Mar 30, 2022
A watered-down neo-Marxism has killed the education reform movement. What needs to happen now?
Mar 17, 2022
A war on merit and excellence
Mar 03, 2022
The problem with universal pre-k
Feb 16, 2022
The politics of education reform
Feb 02, 2022
The need for a research-oriented approach to adoption
Jan 19, 2022
Teaching kids what they can do to be successful
Jan 05, 2022
Critical race to the bottom
Dec 15, 2021
Putting student safety first
Dec 01, 2021
When policies negatively affect children
Nov 10, 2021
A boy problem on college campuses
Oct 27, 2021
The need for a parent revolution?
Oct 13, 2021
No Way to Treat a Child
Sep 29, 2021
The ironies of creating “equitable” educational standards
Sep 15, 2021
The need to give birth fathers a voice in the adoption process
Sep 01, 2021
Providing foster kids with the tools—and the funds—to succeed
Aug 18, 2021
Helping students of all races achieve excellence
Aug 04, 2021
A defense of the family in the age of club sports and college admissions
Jul 21, 2021
Why marijuana legalization undermines “bourgeois virtues”
Jul 07, 2021
How to revitalize our nation’s math education
Jun 23, 2021
Why the Indian Child Welfare Act harms children
Jun 09, 2021
Why we need a child-centered approach to adoption and parenting
May 26, 2021
University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax’s defense of academic standards
May 12, 2021
Helping young adults transition from foster care to adulthood
Apr 21, 2021
Thomas Chatterton Williams on the importance of “unlearning” race and embracing humanism
Apr 07, 2021
Taking child welfare into the 21st century
Mar 24, 2021
Stop blaming the tests, give kids school choice
Mar 10, 2021
Would a child allowance help low-income children?
Feb 24, 2021
Mark Perry on Title IX violations and institutionalized discrimination
Feb 10, 2021
Is it racist to hold historically black colleges to the same academic standards as other schools?
Jan 27, 2021
Free speech and “woke” sensibilities in schools
Jan 13, 2021
The hard bigotry of San Diego’s new grading system
Dec 23, 2020
Can the government deny foster parent applications due to religious beliefs?
Dec 09, 2020
The Protestant school-to-family pipeline
Nov 25, 2020
How has the Opioid epidemic affected children?
Nov 11, 2020
Children need to be loved
Oct 28, 2020
Can "anti-racism" trainings be racist?
Oct 14, 2020
What’s race got to do with it?
Sep 23, 2020
Remote learning that works
Sep 09, 2020
How to homeschool in a pandemic
Aug 26, 2020
Addressing racial disparities in foster care and inspiring agency in kids
Aug 12, 2020
Private schools can help low-income kids, too
Jul 22, 2020
Lockdown learning and children’s right to read
Jul 08, 2020
Abolishing the SAT won’t help minorities. Neither will abolishing the police
Jun 24, 2020
Lockdown is more than an inconvenience for vulnerable children
Jun 11, 2020
Measuring adversity (and protecting kids from it)
Jun 10, 2020
Is universal child care universally beneficial?
May 27, 2020
Parenting 101
May 14, 2020
Creating a national summer learning program
May 07, 2020
Getting the Incentives Right
May 06, 2020
Fathers, Be Good to Your Daughters
May 05, 2020
Going Nuclear
May 05, 2020
Pandemic parenting
May 04, 2020
Moneyball for child welfare
May 04, 2020
Changing the culture of adoption
May 03, 2020
‘Musical Beds’ and the shortage of foster parents
May 03, 2020
Family structure isn’t everything — it’s the only thing
May 02, 2020
Hey, Democrats — how about some power to the parents?
May 01, 2020
Why we offer less protection to minority kids
May 01, 2020
Welcome to: Are You Kidding Me?
Apr 30, 2020